Smeared black-and-white corpse face-paint (with a little red blood spatter thrown in for good measure) is synonymous with extreme metal. Whether it’s to enhance a demonic theme or carry on cultural ...

King Diamond shows us that in addition to a fierce scowl, fearsome corpse paint is crucial to the metal look. Here Mr. Diamond takes a very heavy-handed approach to the color of nothingness. Mustis, ...

In what has to be one of the better promotional efforts we’ve seen this year, Abbath, who may very well have the most easily-recognizable corpse paint design in all of metal, is holding a corpse paint ...

Music portrait photographer Jeremy Saffer — whose numerous credits include shooting bands like Metallica, Megadeth, Korn, Ghost, and Hatebreed for various magazine covers — is releasing a new art book ...

SuicideByStar.com has produced a brief animated video documenting the history and evolution of corpse paint, from Arthur Brown and Alice Cooper all the way through modern times. The two-minute video ...